Townhead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Farmhouse.
Townhead Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-corridor-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townhead Farmhouse, Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 811 722
- Coordinates
- 54.1456, -2.29075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townhead Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of limewashed rubble with stone dressings and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a gabled cross-wing on the right side that contains the entrance on the left. This entrance has a moulded surround and a 20th-century door with a slate hood above it.
On the front gable end of the bay, there is a former two-light double chamfered window on the ground floor, which has been converted to a single light and features a slate hoodmould. The upper floor has a former three-light window, now also a single light, with a chamfered design and a central lintel. A gable end stack is present.
To the left on the ground floor, there is a mid-19th-century window, a lowered chamfered window, and a former five-light chamfered mullioned window, which has been reduced to three lights with only the king mullion and the right-hand mullion remaining. The remains of a former slate dripmould can still be seen. On the upper floor, there is a mid-19th-century window, a blocked former two-light chamfered mullioned window, and a right-hand former three-light chamfered mullioned window, which is now a single light. There are also 20th-century casements. The building features a left-hand ridge stack at the former gable and a right-of-centre ridge stack.
Local climate
Townhead Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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